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ODST grew on me - I kinda liked the way the game flowed as you picked up the story by following in your colleagues foot-steps but I just wish it wasn't so bloody dark. The Rookie levels were just annoying.

Yeah I thought ODST was the best in the series in terms of how cohesive the story was, the frame story of the rookie held the flashback missions together well and then at the end when you're playing missions as the rookie the missions lead one right into the other. In most of the other games the missions are like a highlight real of the story, you're always jumping around from place to place without enough explanation of what happened in the meantime. It felt to me like Reach was the worst at this, until the very end you really didn't have any long term goal, the beginning is just a bunch of random missions jumbled together.

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Yeah I thought ODST was the best in the series in terms of how cohesive the story was, the frame story of the rookie held the flashback missions together well and then at the end when you're playing missions as the rookie the missions lead one right into the other. In most of the other games the missions are like a highlight real of the story, you're always jumping around from place to place without enough explanation of what happened in the meantime. It felt to me like Reach was the worst at this, until the very end you really didn't have any long term goal, the beginning is just a bunch of random missions jumbled together.

SPOILERS BELOW

The problem with story in ODST was and in Reach is that nothing happens between first and last levels that advances the plot.

ODST first level : Dare takes you on a secret mission

bunch of crap that you do as some other characters and retrace it as rookie.

ODST last level : Dare tells you that you need to save the damn engineer and game is over.

Reach second level : Halsey tells you there is something important in the latch key.

you do bunch of crap in levels that don't add to main plot including a stupid cab driver pilot level.

Reach second to last level : Halsey tells you that you must save and take cortana to PoA

I still like the game in terms of the way bungie developed the Reach atmosphere, the feel of desperation. The gameplay, weapons, AAs, enemy AI - everything is rock solid and excellent!

Bungie just forgot to bring a good story to the Reach party.

I feel ODST was just a mini Reach with Halo3 mechanics.

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Some mind boggling numbers are in:

31,000,000 Games have been played since launch

98,000,000 Player-games have been recorded

8,214,338 Daily Challenges have been completed

255,996 Weekly Challenges have been completed

78,499,560,895 Total Credits have been earned

953 Man-years have been spent in matchmade games

1365 Man-years have been spent in campaign

854,107 files have been uploaded

577,804 recommendations have been sent to friends

4,619,455 files have been downloaded

http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2010/09/18/31-million-halo-reach-matches-have-already-been-played/

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SPOILERS BELOW

The problem with story in ODST was and in Reach is that nothing happens between first and last levels that advances the plot.

ODST first level : Dare takes you on a secret mission

bunch of crap that you do as some other characters and retrace it as rookie.

ODST last level : Dare tells you that you need to save the damn engineer and game is over.

Reach second level : Halsey tells you there is something important in the latch key.

you do bunch of crap in levels that don't add to main plot including a stupid cab driver pilot level.

Reach second to last level : Halsey tells you that you must save and take cortana to PoA

I still like the game in terms of the way bungie developed the Reach atmosphere, the feel of desperation. The gameplay, weapons, AAs, enemy AI - everything is rock solid and excellent!

Bungie just forgot to bring a good story to the Reach party.

I feel ODST was just a mini Reach with Halo3 mechanics.

The atmosphere, as with the gameplay, was good up to the end of the space mission. Then after that it just reverts completely back to what Bungie is known for. For some people, I suppose they may like that... but the game had such a great start and ended with such cliched gameplay mechanics.

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I am pretty sure that we will see Gears of War 3 introduce the campaign that will be truly emotional.

WTF? Gears of War probably has one of the worst stories in gaming history.

Sethos says it best

It's the frat boy "OMG MUSCLES AND BADDDDDASSNESS YAAAEH" aspect.
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Sethos

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It's not that bad.

Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem, Crysis...all have similarly contrived stories.

And none of them were praised for their story.

I can't believe what I'm hearing, no wonder developers don't bother with good stories or story telling any more, people sucks up everything like a Shamwow :laugh:

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It's not that bad.

Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem, Crysis...all have similarly contrived stories.

MAAAAAAAARIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Yeah, it is. I have high standards when it comes to story writing and Gears is anything but emotional.

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Quick question about a certain part of the campaign, spoilers ahead!

What in the world happened to Jun? After Hasley tells Noble 6 to get Cortana to the PoA, Jun goes with Hasley and is never heard from again. Did he survive the fall of Reach? Is it possible that we could see some DLC content related to it?

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spenser.d

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The atmosphere, as with the gameplay, was good up to the end of the space mission. Then after that it just reverts completely back to what Bungie is known for. For some people, I suppose they may like that... but the game had such a great start and ended with such cliched gameplay mechanics.

What did you expect. Reach was going into total war and chaos, of course they're just going to throw enemies at you.

I have to disagree, I really enjoyed all of the SP mode and loved all the Halo 1 tie-ins.

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WastedJoker

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MAAAAAAAARIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Yeah, it is. I have high standards when it comes to story writing and Gears is anything but emotional.

It's an FPS game. It's not meant to be Jane Austen. They're meant to be big crash bang omg-he-chewed-his-own-face-off shootathons with good set-pieces. If you need "emotion" to shoot stuff in the face you probably should see a doctor.

The story is merely a MacGuffin - a reason to shoot stuff in the face. Who cares if the reason is the resurgence of an ancient race or because someone from the future stole your taco?

I can't think of any FPS which has a decent storyline except possibly Half-Life but even that rips off movies from the 50's and Orwell.

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WastedJoker

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Here's one: Bioshock.

Ruined the moment they take it to the skies though :( and by pedestrian gameplay :(

Did anybody check out my map I posted a few pages ago? I'm just looking for any kind of feedback.

I will soon as I figure out why my usb stick doesn't work in my xbox :/

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Razorwing

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Quick question about a certain part of the campaign, spoilers ahead!

What in the world happened to Jun? After Hasley tells Noble 6 to get Cortana to the PoA, Jun goes with Hasley and is never heard from again. Did he survive the fall of Reach? Is it possible that we could see some DLC content related to it?

He probably did survive, if their bird didn't get shot down. I'm not too sure if Dr. Hasley survives the Reach invasion in the books, if she does, Jun probably did survive. If she doesn't, Jun is probably dead.

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I will soon as I figure out why my usb stick doesn't work in my xbox :/

I've got that problem too. I went and bought an OCZ 4GB Diesel for mine and it just fails the data loss test... Even my really old and crappy 6GB WD Pocket Drive works!

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Sikh

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I've got that problem too. I went and bought an OCZ 4GB Diesel for mine and it just fails the data loss test... Even my really old and crappy 6GB WD Pocket Drive works!

From my experience it has something to do with read/write speeds. My Patriot XT and Sandisk Cruzer work great but my brand new toshiba mini 8gb and my pny attach? 4gb won't work either.

I think specs were posted about what a "compatible flash drive" should require for it to work with 360.

EDIT: Specs are half way down the page. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981975

Funny thing, looking over the specs I just realized my patriot is formatted ntfs and works but my pny and toshiba are formatted ntfs and don't work. When I'm home tonight I'm gonna format the toshiba and pny and see if fat32 does work.

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